Brendan Rodgers will reportedly be entitled to £10m if he is sacked by Leicester City.
The Foxes currently sit rock bottom of the Premier League after losing to Brighton on Sunday. They have lost five on the spin after drawing with Brentford on the opening weekend of the season, and only Bournemouth have conceded more goals across the first six games.
Rodgers was forced to field questions about his future on Sunday, with Leicester in the midst of their worst league start in more than 30 years. However, thanks to the terms of the deal he signed midway through the 2019-20 season, the former Liverpool boss would earn a hefty payout if he is dismissed.
According to The Mail, Rodgers' most recent deal - signed in 2019 and running until 2025 - includes the £10m compensation clause. When he put pen to paper, Leicester sat second in the Premier League behind runaway leaders Liverpool, with a 12-point cushion over fifth place.
A return to the Champions League looked inevitable, only for three defeats in the final four games of the season to see them pipped to fourth by Manchester United. Leicester finished just outside the top four the next season as well, despite sitting in the Champions League spots for 36 of the 38 gameweeks.
The start to this season has been derailed by a number of transfer battles for Leicester's stars. Rodgers was able to keep hold of James Maddison and Youri Tielemans, but Wesley Fofana completed a move to Chelsea with Wout Faes arriving as a last-minute replacement.
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The defeat at Brighton was enough for Leicester to equal the five-game losing run which saw title-winning boss Claudio Ranieri sacked in 2017. Arsenal, Southampton, Chelsea and Manchester United all got the better of Rodgers' men before three second-half goals for the Seagulls sealed a 5-2 scoreline on Sunday.
“I’ll continue to do my work and come in and study and do as much as I can," Rodgers said after the loss. "I’ve never turned work down. I’ve always come in early and finished late at night and until someone tells me differently I’ll continue to do that.
“The challenge, we have to embrace it, I’m certainly not going to shirk it. It’s been really difficult but we just need to get that laser focus on the team working well and hopefully then the supporters can really support the team."
Leicester's next game is against Aston Villa, who only sit just outside the bottom three themselves. A two-goal victory for Rodgers' side would lift them above their opponents, and could potentially be enough for them to climb out of the bottom three if other results go their way.
